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The peddler and inventor Doctor Henry Wayne presents the pueblo varied unusual products, such as a vacuum-cleaner. The alcalde has only one commission for him: a trap to catch Zorro. Diego, whose failed Montgolfier-balloon amuses Felipe, pretends to help but doesn't, so Wayne sets his traps with the alcalde, who provides the right bate: the supposed execution of senorita Victoria Escalante. When Zorro manages to catch them in their own trap, the alcalde gives Wayne a last change, finding the fox's hide-out, so he builds a Montgolfier-balloon, which works out even nastier for the alcalde and sergeant Mendoza...

When Diego's fencing teacher at Madrid university, Sir Edmond Kendall, arrives by stagecoach in Los Angeles and refuses as British knight to pay the travelers tax, he fights the lancers and is appalled Diego fakes being unable to win, rather paying for him. The alcalde orders Mendoza to finds out about him; don Alejandro knows him since 30 years, but releases nothing useful. At the hacienda, sir Edmund and Diego, who were training together, are shot at by two men; he recognizes them as Sanchez and Figueroa, kills one and sneers Diego shouldn't have spared the other as they want Edmund dead: they are bounty-hunters and the price on his head is because of an unjust association with revolutionaries among his students. The other bounty-hunter informs the alcalde of a royal 5,000 pesos reward, so the alcalde sets a trap and shoots the Britton badly, but he manages to flee into the mission church, where don Alejandro can claim sanctuary for him; it's surrounded, with Diego also inside, but Felipe drops his Zorro costume; even wounded at night, Sir Edmund recognizes his best ever pupil's fencing, finally proud, but dies from his wounds...

While the De la Vega's are off to a cattle auction, pirate captain Henry Stark of the Golden Lion, who lost half his crew, raids Los Angeles for pressed laborers, the alcalde's horse, even Victoria and Felipe, passing the De la Vega's on their way out; don Alejandro rides to the garrison, Diego pretends just to lay a trail but actually is caught himself while he frees Felipe, who rides to the hacienda, saddles Toronado and next morning brings Diego, who already loosened his ropes, the Zorro costume and saber, so he can prove to the pirates, who were about to take the Manlack cemetery treasure, their fiendish cutlasses are no match for his noble blade, nor the alcalde, who was also after the treasure.

Señorita Amanda Herrera, a surveyor's daughter who is the guest of the De la Vega's, captures Sergeant Jaime Mendoza's heart a first sight, for once more attractive then Victoria's food, but private Pedro Sanchez gets her to dance, so he pesters the poor soldier, even with latrine duty, hoping to make him demand a transfer. Diego and Alejandro coach his courting, an even heavier duty. Alas she has still another, higher-ranking suitor, the alcalde, and falls for none. Zorro rode against the same two bandits the alcalde sent his love rivals searching for, so he can call by at the hacienda with roses, only to be captured liked everybody else, so Zorro coaches the bumbling lancers to rush to the rescue; Mendoza takes credit and after a kiss from her proposes to Amanda...

Sir Miles Thackery, Europe's most famous fencer, arrives at Los Angeles, asks who's the best with the blade in the pueblo and immediately challenges and defeats unsuspectingly self-declared sergeant Mendoza, next the alcalde. As victorious champion he decrees that during his stay everyone is at his service, the alcalde even as valet. Don Alejandro is cheated out off a good part of his prize bull's auction price, everyone gets offended and abused, even Victoria, so Diego duels Miles, but as he can't betray himself being Zorro pretends to have hurt his ankle. Zorro accepts a truce with the desperate alcalde, who even becomes his fencing pupil. When Sir Miles still triumphs, a blade-wielding clash of the titans is inevitable, the victorious inspired by something Felipe read in a letter from France...

On the governor's order, each pueblo in the territory is given a printing press to start its own newspaper, supposedly to promote free speech. Don Diego volunteers as editor of the 'Los Angeles Guardian'. Felipe reports outlaws attack farmers in the northern valley- Zorro rides to ambitious José Rivas's rescue. Helped by don Alejandro at the press and Felipe, Diego exposes the alcalde's abuses, while Victoria starts a hearts column 'donna Corazon' and Mendoza a culinary one 'Señor Estomago'. Being the brain behind the racketeering, the alcalde decides to take over the troublesome paper, aided by the sergeant, who tends to replace nouns by some food. Diego is incarcerated, but escapes as Zorro after Felipe brought his costume and food with sleep potion, in time to help José and prepare a nasty chemical surprise for the oppressor of the press...

After singlehandedly chasing off five robbers, Zorro is bitten by a rattlesnake, and collapses at the farm of robber chief Alisio Turron, whose life he just spared in a recklessly engaged fencing duel; his wife Magdalena nurses the fox, resisting her initial temptation to collect the alcalde's fat cash reward on his head, but Alisio, whose Z-marked shirt she was about to mend, finds them, cowardly attacks Zorro who must fence left-handed, loses and rides to the alcalde, whose burning desire to get the fox proves too ardent once he and the lancers reach the Turron farm...

Zorro rides to expose the alcalde's gross tinkering with the market weights, but this time an Indian scout, Grey Wing, is waiting to follow his trail and thus earn the horse he admires as no other, and he is really good. Diego and Felipe drive sheep over the plaza, but the scout picks up the rail, so Diego sends Felipe to lay a false trail riding Toronado, while he offers his services to point out the dangerous new quicksands on the De la Vega estate. The Indian reads every sign brilliantly, till poor Felipe, who can't ride as fast, sees no other way out then hiding in a dangerous abandoned mine-shaft, while Toronado runs back alone. Diego manages to go in alone, but Mendoza is sent in by the alcalde with the scout and causes an explosion...

Zorro tries to save his father's friend Don Carlos from a shady gambler called Bishop who's challenged him to a pistol duel over a throwaway insult.

Mendoza was looking forward to the alcalde being away in Santa Barbara for two days, leaving a curfew meanwhile, but the tyrant rides in town early - as a changed man, charming and courteous to everyone, even 'courting' Victoria, till he suddenly is his old wicked self again, then sweet Luis himself suddenly smells a rat from his past, called Vincente Ramon, and finds him a problem which gets surprisingly solved by Zorro...

When the alcalde sabotages Victoria's plan to bring the Indians survival supplies by forbidding all citizens to enter the Indian land, the Yankee Joshua Barnes steps in to drive her cart. Zorro prevents a lancer shooting Joshua. Barnes buys some De la Vega land to become a farmer, but the alcalde has that annulled because he's a foreigner and has him arrested for refusing to prove his loyalty to the crown by catching Zorro. Then the three Harper brothers arrive, hoping to revenge their father Jake's dead on Joshua. The alcalde offers them to release Barnes if they first eliminate Zorro, Joshua protection if he collaborates. Zorro intervenes, well-prepared...

The alcalde and his troops run off an Indian tribe from the land surrounding Los Angeles, but a young Indian girl named Kinona is left behind. She is rescued by Zorro and taken in by the de la Vegas. Kinona and Felipe fall in love, but the alcalde has other plans for the girl. To make matters worse, Kinona is already betrothed to a warrior named Black Feather, who now sees Felipe as an enemy.

The Falcon, a felon with such bird of prey and two accomplices, considers Los Angeles an ideal prey because of its corrupt alcalde, provided he can set a suitable trap for Zorro. The alcalde's new taxes, to pay for extravagant 400 pesos boots, allow the Falcon to spark a revolution by distributing silver coins, which don Diego chemically traces to the bank robbery in Guadalajara. When don Alejandro warns the people against revolt, he is kidnapped as bate to a fatal trap in the mountains. Zorro rides to deal with both thieving fiends...

It's Christmas and Don Diego is depressed, less because of his bad cold then his father's sneers that he should at least have been protesting while Zorro singlehandedly saved innocent villager Friez from flogging by the alcalde. He decides to give the party at Victoria's a miss, and wonders if Zorro's endless crime-fighting really matters, since he never gets closer to his true love or gets any credit for his feats as the masked mystery man he created. Then magically appears Don Fernando, apparently an angel of fate, who shows Diego how disastrously worse everyone's life except the evil alcalde's would be without Zorro...

A group of bandits lead by vengeful Carrillo, who was framed for a crime he didn't commit by Ramone, plans a raid on the pueblo.

Zorro chases and captures the LA bank robbery suspect Enrique Vargas. Wondering why the alcalde seemed uninterested, Diego decides to defend Enrique in the alcalde's court against prosecutor Mendoza, who is absolutely confident he will avoid the noose by escape- indeed a giant literally breaks the jail: Nestor Vargas comes for his kid brother 'Ricky', but they are persuaded to stay for a fair trial rather then remain fugitives for life, trusting on Nestor's iron bars-bending fists' persuading power to overrule any objection from Mendoza against Diego's intelligent plea based on hard facts. When the alcalde, exposed as the real gold thief, bases his hanging sentence purely on lancers firepower, Nestor and Zorro first fight, then team up against his (in)justice ...

Judge Bernardo de la Paz is threatened because he is about to condemn violent criminal Vincente Torres's brother to death, so he sends his teenage son Carlos de la Paz for safekeeping to the De la Vega hacienda, where Felipe finds his 'playmate' is a reckless rascal. Diego was testing a glue for false beards for a boys Easter play, so the two adolescents test it. The brat ruins a vase and runs to the pueblo, disguised as a strange 'man', riding one of the hacienda's best horses and wearing don Alejandro's ceremonial sword, just when "the governor's son" enlists the naive alcalde's help to collect -actually kidnap- the kid. Zorro and Felipe find Carlos at Victoria's tavern, challenging a criminal gang, which they discretely help him put out of order, only to be openly attacked when daddy arrives...

When Zorro deals with stage coach-robbers, Lopez admits he was released from jail by the alcalde just to prevent the arrival of his fat, extremely rude, bitchy cousin, famous seamstress Hermelinda. She now has to walk the last part with her fellow passengers, botanist Andres Bolanos and concert pianist Honorio Aragon, who is eagerly awaited in the humble pueblo. Aragon stays with Victoria but will play the De la Vega piano. At night, the hacienda is robbed and don Alejandro knocked down by a masked, Beethoven whistling art connoisseur, whose next victims are Victoria and the alcalde himself. Diego and Felipe set a musical trap which Zorro closes at Aragon's concert in the tavern...

Deputy Governor Frasquez is a day early, while the alcalde isn't back yet, carrying the order to capture Zorro. He decides Mendoza is unfit as acting alcalde, and appoints don Alejandro, demanding Zorro's capture by Saturday or he'll be carried in chains himself and the De la Vega hacienda taxed to bankruptcy. Tailor Miguel Martinez finds his brother was falsely accused of cattle theft and shot, so he heads for L.A. to take terminal revenge on 'the alcalde', ignoring the interim; Victoria allows him poor man's rate, free 'left over' soup and tells Alejandro is in office. Diego and Felipe hope capturing the cattle thieves may allow Frasquez to save face and return to Monterrey. Bragging about a prize bull allows Zorro to deliver thief Sanchez to jail. Alejandro revives the water supply project Luis Ramon 'transformed' into a French bath. After Diego frustrates Miguel's shooting don Alejandro, Zorro deliberately gets himself arrested- actually Miguel was planted in his costume, the real Zorro frees him during transport to Monterrey, then makes sure Ramon doesn't rescind the irrigation.

A theater troupe arrives in town, but Zorro suspects that the real reason why they're there is the Magistrate's priceless jeweled sword of Charlemagne.

When protestant Daniel Nielson, fleeing religious persecution with his wife Esther and son Aaron, is the first-ever client of alcalde Ramon's land office in years actually to claim a piece of Los Angeles, he accepts, despite Diego and Victoria's warning it's a barren wilderness, 40 acres in the rocky Mesa de las Piedras. Helped by the De la Vegas, they get a self-sufficient farm going thanks to nitrates fertilizer. When don Alejandro has another malaria attack in Dr. Hernandez' absence, Esther helps him. Diego sends Felipe for Zorro's costume, seeing the superstitious villagers believe the industrious Nielsens practice witchcraft and put them in stocks to be lynched by stoning; the alcalde would be all too happy to get their now valuable land back...

A grandfather shows his girl Laura the hide-out cave, and finds there Diego De la Vega's diary about the Devil's fortress, which was used as a feared political prison. Victoria showed a letter, allegedly from her father Alfonso's cell mate, if true he didn't die in the Mexican revolution but is seriously ill. Diego volunteers to go there to speak to the commandant, actually Zorro comes in his saddle bag after promising Victoria his help. The alcalde orders Mendoza to accompany him on a week's trip to the fortress, he wanted an excuse since years, so they go plead señorita Escalante's case; mistrusting she follows them, alone. On the way Zorro saves a runaway stagecoach, the passenger Rosalinda de la Fuente is ungrateful enough to try to deliver the masked savior to the fortress's patrol when she recognizes the Parsian perfume from the handkerchief she gave him on Diego's unmasked person... [see Part 2]

Don Diego, who uses the alias Salvador Gilarranz, is arrested but escapes before Rosalinda's coach reaches the fortress. Zorro rides on and finds Victoria's youngest brother Ramon lurking around, together they climb in. Inside the alcalde and Victoria plead in vain for her father, so she goes to liberate the prisoners herself, overpowering Rosalinda, is helped by Mendoza, Zorro deals with the troops. Meanwhile the alcalde has his own secret agenda, which turns out crucial for the grandfather in the present too...

[This double-length episode is often aired in two parts] [PART 1] Now the alcalde is away for three months, Diego makes a journey to Beaumartin, near Bordeaux (France) and tells Felipe there's no need to pack his Zorro costume but finds it in his luggage anyway. Diego hoped for a quiet country vacation, but lands immediately in an inn brawl, then in the feud between vicomte (viscount) Jussac, the aristocratic royalist garrison commander who behaves rather too much like a certain Californian alcalde, and Porthos, great-great-grandson of one of the original Three Musketeers (Aramis was a clergyman, so childless) who were granted the castle by Louis XIII, which was seized during the French Revolution, Jussac stole the signet ring which serves as property title. Actually Porthos is a drunk, so his valet Picotin has a hard job minding the hot-head, who gets them all arrested at once. After his turn of torturous interrogation, Diego is released and nursed by Amélie, countess of Pérignon. Zorro decides to free Porthos and Picotin at night, as 'Le renard' (French for 'the Fox', i.e. Zorro). Then arrive the other musketeer heirs, convened by Picotin to reclaim the castle: gallant Athos and ... [PART 2] D'Artagnan's heir is there too, only he was careful enough to send a declining letter to stake the place first. Diego joins the 'three musketeers', Picotin has uniforms ready for each. Jussac-supporters overrun he musketeers, but 'le renard' is ready to throw them out. Diego tricks the countess, and trough her the viscount to ride the wrong way, then has the fox brought in so they can overtake the remaining guards and look for the ring of Beaumartin. Viscount and countess are chased in disgrace. Diego is welcomed home by Felipe and Victoria.

Once the Three Musketeers are assembled, Diego helps them form a plan to regain their ancestors' castle. Later, Zorro helps them execute the plan and establish themselves as the protectors of their town.